Liquefacation- occurs when an earthquakes shaking turns soft soil into liquid mud
aftershock- an earthquake that occurs in a the same area a larger earthquake has occurred.
tsunamis- large, monster waves created when an earthquake happens on the ocean floor
base- isolated building- a base created to absorb the shock and energy an earthquake will give off, made with rubber layers so the building will sway during an earthquake
Outline
T= Earthquake Hazards and Safety
1. How Earthquakes can cause damage
severe shaking of earthquake
damage/ destroy buildings
A diagram of a fixed base and a base- isolated building and their reactions to an earthquake
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Vocabulary
Liquefacation- occurs when an earthquakes shaking turns soft soil into liquid mud
aftershock- an earthquake that occurs in a the same area a larger earthquake has occurred.
tsunamis- large, monster waves created when an earthquake happens on the ocean floor
base- isolated building- a base created to absorb the shock and energy an earthquake will give off, made with rubber layers so the building will sway during an earthquake
Outline
T= Earthquake Hazards and Safety
1. How Earthquakes can cause damage
- severe shaking of earthquake
- damage/ destroy buildings
A diagram of a fixed base and a base- isolated building and their reactions to an earthquake
- damage/ destroy bridges
- topple utility poles
- fracture gas
- fracture water mains
- s- waves
- cause severe damage near the epicenter
- put stress on buildings- fall apart
- can trigger landslides = avalanches
- local soil conditions
- solid rock= less shaking
- sandy soil= more shaking
- liquefaction
- creates cracks
- shaking makes soil- mud
- trigger landslides
- aftershocks
- earthquake that happens
- in same area as bigger earthquake
- Tsunamis
- when earthquake hits ocean floor
- makes monster waves- tsunamis
- starts from oceans epicenter
- can be as high as a six story building
1. Making Buildings Safer